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<p><p>In Snow Leopard, screen sharing now properly transfers all keyboard commands to the remote server. For example, the Command-Tab application switcher switches applications only on the remote system's screen.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/7272"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7272', 'show')">Apple Posts $19 Million Q3 Profit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7272" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7272">Apple Computer announced a $19 million profit for its third fiscal quarter of 2003. The company shipped 771,000 Macs during the quarter; that's 60,000 more computers than Apple sold in its previous fiscal quarter, and while iMac and iBook sales increased a bit both PowerBook and Power Macintosh sales dropped (the latter probably in expectation of the not-yet-shipping Power Mac G5 models)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/7262"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7262', 'show')">More Details on AirPort 3.1 Compatibility</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7262" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7262">Darn those nit-picking product numbers! Last week I wrote in "AirPort 3.1 Supports Third Party 802.11g PC Cards" that Buffalo Technology's 802.11g PC Card costs about $60 and works with Macs thanks to the AirPort 3.1 update</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7261"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7261', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/07-Jul-03</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/7255"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7255', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/30-Jun-03</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7255" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7255">Power Mac G5 specs -- Serial ATA bus speeds, swapping hard drives, heat dissipation, maximum RAM, and more in this Power Mac G5 examination. (27 messages)Older Power Macs still available -- In the wake of the Power Mac G5 announcement, Apple is still selling a Power Mac G4 model - that can even boot into Mac OS 9! (4 messages)The "Outlook" for Mail -- Apple's Mail application will use the Safari engine to render HTML messages in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/7245"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7245', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/23-Jun-03</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7245" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7245">Replacing a Power Mac G4 power supply -- Readers chime in on their own experiences with Apple's replacement power supply program, including ruminations on why Apple doesn't build quieter machines in the first place</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7234" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7234">Apple has released iPod Software 2.0.1, improving performance and Windows compatibility for 2003 iPod models that feature a dock connector (earlier iPod models remain at version 1.3 of the software)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7235" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7235">One week after the IEEE ratified the 802.11g specification for higher-speed wireless equipment, Apple has released AirPort 3.1 for Mac OS X, which updates Macs using AirPort Extreme (see "802.11g (AirPort Extreme) Ratified" in TidBITS 684)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 20 Jun 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7233"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7233', 'show')">The Mail Must Go Through, Faster</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7233" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7233">Bare Bones Software, Inc., has released version 2.0 of its POP/SMTP email client, Mailsmith (see "Mailsmith 1.5: Lean, Mean Email Machine" in TidBITS 638)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7232" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7232">Choosing a projector -- Suggestions for buying a portable multimedia projector for use on the road, including a discussion of how screen resolution affects display</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/7219"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7219', 'show')">NoteTaker 1.5: Even More Noteworthy</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7219" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7219">AquaMinds has released version 1.5 of their flagship outliner, NoteTaker, with many improvements (see "Take Note of Notetaker" in TidBITS 677)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 13 Jun 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7220"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7220', 'show')">QuicKeys X2 Beefs Up Macros</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7220" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7220">CE Software has released QuicKeys X2, the latest Mac OS X version of their long-standing macro utility (see "QuicKeys X: Return of the Ghost" in TidBITS 602)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 13 Jun 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7221"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7221', 'show')">QuicKeys X2 Beefs Up Macros</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7221" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7221">CE Software has released QuicKeys X2, the latest Mac OS X version of their long-standing macro utility (see "QuicKeys X: Return of the Ghost" in TidBITS 602)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 13 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7218" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7218">Apple took a risk when it introduced AirPort Extreme in January 2003. AirPort Extreme relies on the IEEE 802.11g specification, a 54 megabit-per-second enhancement to 802.11b (Wi-Fi or AirPort) that Apple has offered since 1999</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 12 Jun 2003</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7217" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7217">Online Crossword Puzzles -- Pointers to additional software for solving and creating crossword puzzles on the Mac. (7 messages)Wireless for older Macs -- More suggestions for adding an older Mac to your wireless network</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 09 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7207" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7207">Shortly after releasing QuickTime 6.3, Apple has made iMovie 3.0.3 available as a free update. As iMovie is built on QuickTime technology, one of its main improvements is improved audio and video synchronization when exporting movies to QuickTime format</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 05 Jun 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7203"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7203', 'show')">iSync 1.1 Supports More Phones, Safari Bookmarks</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7203" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7203">Apple has released iSync 1.1, its Mac OS X-only technology for synchronizing contacts, calendars, and other information across multiple computers and other devices</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 04 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7204" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7204">Apple has released QuickTime 6.3, the latest version of its foundation digital media technology. Version 6.3 offers improvements to DV audio and video synchronization (helpful for video authoring applications) along with specific improvements for Apple's Keynote, iMovie, and iDVD applications</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 04 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7205" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7205">Apple has released version 1.1 of its new Mac OS X-only presentation program Keynote. The update improves Keynote's ability to import and export PowerPoint presentations, adds the capability to jump to a specific slide during a slideshow, includes an option to not clip 3D transitions, improves feedback and interaction while working with slides in the Navigator, optimizes exported QuickTime files, reduces the size of themes and presentation files, and improves the overall performance of QuickTime video</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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